Natural Selections: Pseudemys Alabamensis
On your way across the Bay, there’s no doubt you’ve seen the Delta’s most visible reptile: an Alabama red-bellied cooter basking lazily on a log or root....
Turning Over a New Reef
Did you know Alabama has the largest artificial reef system in the U.S.? It’s true. In fact, we have more than 20, 000 of them. Everything from military tanks...
Our Air, Land & Sea
NEW HEIGHTS
Cruise to an altitude of 2, 000 feet in a hot air balloon ride above Baldwin County. Up, up, and away is an adventure from a 70-foot-tall, 60-foot-wide,...
Natural Selections: Sarracenia leucophylla
Pretty, sweet and surprisingly diabolical, pitcher plants are nature’s own tricky kind of fly trap, with a hearty diet of insects and the occasional small...
The New Old Point Clear
I suddenly find myself at the age where I’m telling my kids “how it used to be when I was growing up.” I remember when my father and grandfather...
Southern Exposure
Is there a cult of sunglasses on the Gulf Coast, a secret society that always shades its meaning and polarizes its detractors behind pricey Costa Del Mars,...
Back to the Muck
The first time I met my neighbor Ace, he told me he was going to kill me. He never did, and eventually I got to be...
Dueling Dragons
In ancient China, dragon boats, or long, wooden vessels decorated like the mythical creatures, were fashioned to encourage rainfall and appease the precipitation deities....
Talk of the Town
“I haven’t experienced this personally, but rumor has it …” We love juicy stories beginning with ‘rumor has it’ – and our legends have more juice than a squashed...
Natural Selections: Procambarus Clarkii
Whether you know them as crawfish, mudbugs, Louisiana lobsters or crayfish, everyone in and around Mobile Bay is familiar with these resilient freshwater crustaceans. You...
